40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)

November 23, 1996Documentary, TV Movie1h 7m

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

Overview

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

Videos
Similar Movies
%0
Behind the SkisDecember 30, 2004
%75
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellasSeptember 11, 2016
%66.67
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard OfJanuary 1, 2012
%0
The Invisible SubtitlerNovember 18, 2013
%60
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American DreamerJuly 2, 1990
%74
Never-Ending Man: Hayao MiyazakiNovember 14, 2017
%75
The Irreversible OdysseyJanuary 1, 2019
%0
Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me MemoriesJuly 29, 2014
%0
On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a MonarchJanuary 1, 2010
%0
Dangerous Lies: Unmasking Belle GibsonFebruary 17, 2025
%0
Major Grom: Plague Doctor. Behind the ScenesNovember 3, 2022
%0
Ziegfeld Follies: An Embarrassment of RichesApril 25, 2006
%52
Ciné regards: Jacques TourneurJanuary 1, 1978
%60
Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'December 16, 2016
%0
In My Own WordsJune 9, 2017
%70.97
FilmworkerMay 11, 2018
%70
Kieslowski: DialogueJanuary 1, 1991
%0
Somewhere Between New York and LANovember 8, 2020
%67
Chaplin Today: City LightsMay 14, 2003
%75
ArturMay 10, 2011